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Buckingham, Louisa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
Research suggests that passing for a native English speaker (NES) is often perceived as desirable by teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and employers, and students may claim to prefer certain NES accents as learning models. While this may be partly motivated by the prevalence of a particular regional accent in ESL contexts or…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation, Dialects